Kenny Blank

Executive Director, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

Kenny Blank is executive director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival—the largest film festival in Atlanta and the world’s largest Jewish film fest. A communications and journalism veteran, Blank worked for Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Bill Campbell in the early 1990s, and won an Associated Press award for special coverage of the 1996 Olympics as a producer at WSAV-TV in Savannah. Most recently Blank was an executive producer for WXIA-TV, where he received an Emmy for breaking-news coverage. Education: New York University

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Positions

The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation Founded in 1995 by Arthur M Blank, co founder of The Home Depot

• Member, Board of Directors

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Chuck Schumer US Senator, former Representative from New York

• 2 contributions · 5,800 USD (Jun 11 '21)

Friends of Schumer

• 2 contributions · 5,800 USD (Jun 11 '21)

Michelle Nunn President and CEO CARE USA; Co-Founder and CEO, Points of Light Hands On Network

• 1 contribution · 500 USD (May 27 '14)

Family

Diana Blank Philanthropist and former wife of Home Depot Founder Arthur M Blank; her gift through the Kendeda Fund may total as much as $1 billion

• mother

Arthur M Blank Co founder of Home Depot; owner of NFL Atlanta Falcons franchise; founder of AMB Group

• father

Nancy L Blank

• wife

Dena Kimball Executive Director, The Kendeda Fund

• sister

Schools

New York University

• BA, Fine Arts/Journalism

Types	Person
Gender	Male